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In this week’s episode, we interviewed Gwendolyn Regina, Investment Director of Layer 1 Blockchain BNB Chain. Prior to her current role, Regina ventured her capital on her Facebook (some now call her Meta) building new businesses her unit for growing partnerships and startups. I worked for She is also the founder of several different businesses and is a founding team member of Thymos Capital, an early stage technology investment firm.
As investment director, Regina reviews new projects, speaks with developers, and runs the BNB chain’s grant program.
The BNB chain was launched in September 2020 and was initially launched by Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume.
Since then, the BNB chain has become a decentralized, community-owned entity separate from Binance, focused on three audiences: retail marketplaces, builders, developers and bridging Web2.0 businesses to Web3. , says Regina. “We are here, first and foremost, to grow blockchain and grow the pie.”
Last year was a volatile year for the cryptocurrency market, but Regina explained that BNB’s investment strategy is long-term and largely unaffected by day-to-day market events.
“Our investment themes haven’t changed, but they do,” joked Regina. “We all know that blockchain and cryptocurrencies move incredibly fast, so while they have become more precise in certain areas, most have remained the same.”
Overall, through a bear market and a “little bull” on the way, “we are in a stage where everyone is building,” Regina said. “And we want to enable more features on the BNB chain. I think.”
Web3 games on the BNB chain have also grown “organically through robustness and low fees,” but the blockchain team is now encouraging more gamers and developers to play and build on that chain. Regina added that we are “doubling down” in that area to do so. Of her one million daily active users, about 40% are gamers, she shared.
“Our GameFi infrastructure has always been relatively strong, but things are evolving so much that we are trying to find a one-stop-shop GameFi infrastructure,” Regina said. “Going back to our investment themes, when we look at different themes we always ask ourselves what we are missing and more importantly. […] It is necessary to think about what will be important in half a year. ”
For Regina and the investment team at BNB, there are factors such as investment being “more than financial capital. It’s really a lot of growth incentives.”
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